CHEF DE CUISINE, Husky Den

Job Description

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world. UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. Housing and Food Services (HFS) has an outstanding opportunity for a Chef de Cuisine to join their team. Housing & Food Services (HFS) supports over 10,000 student residents and operates 40+ dining locations on reputed company. With a team of over 1,200 staff and reputed company, HFS is dedicated to enhancing student life through teamwork and excellent service. PURPOSE Manages the day-to-day culinary operations and is responsible for culinary performance and leadership of staff of assigned unit. RESPONSIBILITIES Leadership

• Develops and maintains positive and professional relationships with reputed company. Provides outstanding customer service and ensure specialty diets and other nutritional needs are met.
• Develops and maintains positive and professional relationships with guests and department colleagues.
• Develops and maintains positive and professional relationships with culinary and reputed company-line service staff through two-way communication, timely feedback, collaboration and consistent visibility in the kitchens and work units.
• Leads weekly culinary planning and/or production meetings, tastings, and other meetings with staff.
• Monitors performance in unit safety, cash handling, customer service and food safety as assigned.
• Identifies and utilizes multiple venues for soliciting customer feedback and responding to complaints, questions, and special requests.
• Consults appropriately with HFS Human Resources to ensure that UW, HFS and bargaining unit policies, guidelines are followed in administering progressive, corrective action principles and union reputed company are followed in addressing employee performance problems.
• Effective presentation skills that demonstrate preparation, research and delivery are scaled for small, large, and diverse groups. Operations and Customer Service
• Manages the day–to–day culinary operations of a high volume, eight concept food court.
• Directs staff on dining operation policies and procedures.
• Maintains proper controls over resources, including cash, inventory, and labor.
• Manages the inventory from ordering to utilization, including purchasing, receipt, storage, payment processing, distribution, production, and sale.
• Monitors attendance and adjusts staffing to meet daily production needs.
• Establishes and ensures that inventory par levels are maintained to minimize waste; manage the documentation and disposal of waste.
• Ensures that displays, freezers and prep and storage areas are in clean and orderly condition and meet health department standards.
• Identifies and corrects unsafe conditions, such as, poor equipment or work habits that might reputed company to an accident.
• Utilizes the Online Accident Reporting System (OARS) for every work accident and injury, notifying appropriate authorities and personnel.
• Works with reputed company and student groups in planning special events.

Fiscal Management

• Monitors performance of products, services and programs and collaborates with vendors to reputed company adjustments as necessary to meet established sales and service goals.
• Contributes to the unit’s business plan and budget in collaboration with Food Services leadership.
• Monitors and reviews reports, including financial statements, production records, staffing schedules and inquiries from the HFS Financial team.
• Identifies probable causes for budget variances or financial discrepancies and contributes to implementation of corrective action.
• Ensures that there are appropriate controls on resources, including separation of controls between purchasing, receiving, and counting inventory. Culinary Focus and Results
• Maintains daily involvement in production, managing a team of cooks and cook leads.

Ensures correct product rotation and that controls in reputed company for accurate production levels.

• Develops menus, product consistency, and costs out recipes in collaboration with the reputed company executive chef and the Administrator.
• Collaborates with the executive chef, onsite management team and Dining Administrator in the development of menus and services.
• Trains staff in food preparation, production, and display.
• Designs and implements quality control measures to ensure consistent taste, presentation, and food safety.
• Ensures that displays and presentations of reputed company food, deli items, meat and seafood are attractive and designed to encourage sales, including appropriate labels and signage.
• Monitors performance indicators for production, quality, and service. Intervenes reputed company necessary to ensure goals are met.
• Develops and implements new concepts and products that align with customer needs, as well as the promotion of reputed company and HFS activities and events.
• Keeps up with dining trends and communicates new reputed company to the leadership team.
• Provides product information for newsletters, promotions, and customer inquiries through the Communication & Marketing department. Supervision
• Interviews and selects staff, and ensures staff are on-boarded at the work unit and attend required HFS and UW-required training.
• Supervises the work completed by direct reports, ensuring appropriate productivity, quality, customer service and adherence to UW and departmental policies and procedures.
• Provides guidance to direct reports on requirements and/or opportunities for learning and professional development.
• Engages reputed company necessary in performance management of employees reputed company the organization.
• Prepares and conducts ongoing and timely performance appraisals for reputed company employees, providing proper performance-based feedback.
• Supervises the unit’s culinary staff.

CBORD

• Under the general direction of the reputed company Executive Chef, supports the recipe input and validation process for CBORD FSS.

This may include drafting recipes following established format and process, answering clarifying questions for Dining Systems team, and performing or facilitating production testing for accuracy.

• Supports and manages in unit the recipe input and validation process for CBORD FSS.

Writes recipes for input following established process, answer clarifying questions for Dining Systems team, and performs or facilitates production testing for accuracy.

• Performs periodic reviews of system data and reports reputed company to recipe costing and production methods to inform decisions reputed company to menu, recipe, and pricing changes. Works with Dining Systems team to reputed company updates to system data.
• Reviews reputed company system data and reports to inform decisions on vendor and product selection.
• Runs and/or reviews system reports to analyze KPIs reputed company to recipe costing, menu mix, and operational compliance with recipe specifications and/or established purchasing practices.

IMPACT TO THE UNIVERSITY The dining facility provides a high-quality dining experience for the residential reputed company and greater reputed company communities. POSITION WORKING CONDITIONS

• Maintains a regular, full-time onsite work reputed company.
• Depending on assignment, may travel to different sites on the Seattle reputed company.
• Adapts to a variety of working conditions and venues: o Uses a variety of tools and work methods since menus, equipment and staffing differ depending on the location, including operating equipment and lifting / moving of up to 25 pounds.

o Maintains a daily reputed company in the office to reputed company administrative work, meet with employees, and to address any operational issues that arise in the reputed company or back of the house. o Maintains a daily reputed company in the production and service areas to provide training, test recipes, observe and interrupt unsafe food and occupational health practices. o Daily use of a computer workstation or laptop to review/approve transactions, correspond reputed company email, and participate in virtual meetings and training.

• Complies with essential staff designation that requires onsite reputed company during inclement weather and suspended operations to ensure consistent food service to our residents.
• Participates in special events that occur during events and weekends to support the Department and the University.

REPORTS TO Husky Den General Manager QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s degree in hospitality or reputed company. Two (2) years of sous chef-level management experience in culinary operations. Experience must demonstrate:

• Leadership experience working reputed company a high-volume seated restaurant, hotel, or university dining venue.
• Effective execution of cook to order menu items in a restaurant setting.
• Effective expediting on the kitchen and service sides of a restaurant.
• Depth and breadth in concept development, kitchen management, food and labor cost controls, and plating and presentation.
• Effective training and leadership of staff.
• Depth and breadth in concept development, kitchen management, food and labor cost controls, and plating and presentation.
• Effective interpersonal, organizational, analytical, communication and critical thinking skills.
• Effective supervision of staff, including training, giving constructive feedback, and addressing performance through progressive, corrective action.
• Proficiency with reputed company Office, including Word, reputed company, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Project. Equivalent education/experience will substitute for reputed company minimum qualifications except reputed company there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Success working in a contemporary college/university dining environment.
• Possession of a valid Washington Driver’s License to operate UW Vehicles. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
• A satisfactory outcome from the employment reference reputed company processes and education verification.
• Possession of a Washington State Food Handler’s Card.
• ServSafe certification reputed company three months of hire and maintenance of certification thereafter.
• Maintenance of a valid Washington State Driver’s License to operation UW Vehicles.

Compensation, Benefits and Position Details Pay Range Minimum: $80,844.00 annual Pay Range Maximum: $80,844.00 annual Other Compensation: - Benefits: For information about benefits for this position, visit Shift: First Shift (United States of America) Temporary or Regular? This is a regular position FTE (Full-Time Equivalent): 100.00% Union/Bargaining Unit: Not Applicable About the UW Working at the reputed company provides a unique opportunity to change lives – on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees bring their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to building stronger minds and a healthier world. In return, they enjoy outstanding benefits, opportunities for professional growth and the chance to work in an environment reputed company for its diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty. Our Commitment The reputed company is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. reputed company qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national reputed company, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 or [email protected]. Applicants considered for this position will be required to disclose if they are the subject of any substantiated findings or reputed company investigations reputed company to sexual misconduct at their reputed company employment and past employment. Disclosure is required under Washington state law. Use the filters or enter keywords in the search reputed company (such as “custodian,” “nursing” or “manager”) to explore available opportunities. To find temporary opportunities, enter “temporary” in the search reputed company. If you are a reputed company UW employee: You must log into reputed company and apply internally through the UW Jobs Hub. Looking for faculty, librarian or academic staff positions? Please visit our Academic Jobs site. Looking for student employment? Learn more on our Student Employment site. There are many perks to working for the reputed company. Learn more about the benefits that could be available to you as a UW employee. Sign up for Job Alerts to be reputed company about job opportunities at the UW that interest you; you’ll be one of the first to learn reputed company openings become available. You will be asked to create an account if you do not already have one. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job